Photos from Ithaca, New York and Niagara Falls - c 1916-1917 - pages 52 - 55

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   I'm very lucky to have several of my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) photo albums. And perhaps even luckier that she labeled many of the photos - so I know roughly when and where they were taken, and who was in the photos. 

My grandmother attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1915-1916, and then Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 1916-1919.

Page 52 contains photos from Ithaca, New York and the Cornell University Campus


Over Ithaca


Animal Husbandry Barns


Armory


Stadium


Made in Ithaca

There looks to be a wooden box with the name Bill Brock painted on it towards the back for the airplane. William S. Brock "Billy" was an early aviation pioneer - information at him can be found at https://www.earlyaviators.com/ebrock.htm  - I'm trying to determine if he had a connection with Ithaca and if the airplane in the photo could be connected to him

Further research shows that this may be model HS airplane built by the homas-Brothers Aeroplane Company of Ithaca, NY. Thomas Brothers built two of these planes in 1916 for the US Navy - they were scrapped in 1917. The planes were their D2 model with floats. More info on their planes can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_HS_Ithaca_NY_1916.jpg?fbclid=IwAR0pFDcQLmhtJv3yh95ewYbtntoTREK68oiE_RYYzO-h2vNLkm1SETE5igA




Page 53 has a photo of a young girl identified at Margaret's niece



Margaret's Niece

Page 54 has photos of Niagara Falls










Portage 


Portage 1916

Page 55 has photos of someone named Dick and of the Burks family


Dick

Dick


At Portage


The Burks family 


Dickie





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